To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter

To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

Tera W. Hunter

336 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction gender history race challenging informative slow-paced
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Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former master. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoo...

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